A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Cereal! My first ever in Bureaucracy:
So I think appealling to the emotional is not an unfair thing to do because the emotional side of who we are is part of who we are.
It can, however, be a wicked disruptive thing to do. And it can throw us all off-topic, if used uncautiously. I can certainly understand appeals to emotion as a tool in the persuasion toolbox, but it's the undiplomatic ranting that only makes more feelings get hurt that bothers me. I see it a lot in this thread recently, hence my appeal for library voices.
You know, saying things that are emotionally true, but not shouting them in everyone's ear.
Decent, reasonable people can disagree, vehemently. Courteous people can disagree vehemently without casting aspersions on their opponents' reasoning power.
You rang?
Okay, username joke. Because you can't disagree Nutty, only nuttily. See? Adverbs are good!
FYI, we were linked to at Whedonesque again.
Adverbs are
bad!
Show, don't tell!
You incompetent ficcer, you!
That's frustrating. Didn't we ask them to stop?
I've seen links to that post in about 6 different large BTVS forums.
I think we need to add "Doblerize" to the FAQ.
My proposed version (hack at will):
In
Say Anything,
the hero, Lloyd Dobler, confronts a friend who is drunk and being difficult. Dobler gets in his face and shouts "You. Must. Chill!" So to Doblerize is to tell somebody (possibly yourself) to calm down and step away from the ugly bag.
Brain: sieve. What's a sieve again?
[edited to add movie title]
Say Anything is the title.
The movie is Say Anything.
A sieve is one of those things that stuff falls through.
Failing to Doblerize makes Joe lie. And cry.
Sorry. Been looking at too many meta-fandom icons.
backs away slowly
ETA: I think it should go in the FAQ as well. See? Post not totally useless. :)
